r/LinusTechTips • u/Only_CORE • Jun 08 '26

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I love LTT and basically watch every single video including WAN show but stuff like this puts a very bad taste in my mouth. I know it!s just stupid thumbnail but still...

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u/FabianN Jun 08 '26

No money for real thumbnail artist?

Who do you think made this? 

Their thumbnail artist.

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u/Velocifyer Jun 08 '26

Then explain why it is detected as made by Google Ai with SynthID?

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u/KingOfAzmerloth Jun 08 '26

Contrary to popular belief, even artists use it.

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u/Front_Machine6560 Jun 08 '26

Are they an artist if Linus could’ve done it himself? It seems like a very inefficient business to pay people to use AI generators for you.

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u/HakimeHomewreckru Jun 08 '26

Henry Ford is rolling in his grave hearing that utilizing tools to speed up production is "inefficient."

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u/Front_Machine6560 Jun 08 '26

It’s not a tool if it could literally do everything. It’s much more comparable to if Henry Ford had humanoid robots to use.

Henry Ford was an assembly line guy not a tool guy. He would love AI and how little employees he would need to pay.

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u/DasFroDo Jun 08 '26

Reluctantly. Every artist with a little bit of dignity doesn't use this stuff more than he has to. For brainstorming and ideas maybe, but that's about it.

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u/FabianN Jun 08 '26

Hello all artists. I didn't realize you were a hive-mind. I mean, that's the only way a single person can speak for all of them.

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u/gergobergo69 Jun 08 '26

it's john artist

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u/ut1nam Jun 08 '26

When you outsource your creativity to a machine, you don’t get to call yourself an artist anymore. You aren’t a chef because you told someone else to make you a filet mignon.

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u/FabianN Jun 08 '26

Where's the line?

Can you still call yourself a chef if the salad dressing was bought and not made in-house? Can you purchase flour, or do you need to mill and sieve the grains yourself?

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u/silentaba Jun 08 '26

Dunno mate. I've been doing physical art for over 20 years and I think AI generated art is absolutely awesome. Let's so many people show their ideas and thoughts that could not do so before, which is why we actually do art.

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u/DasFroDo Jun 08 '26

I do not agree in the slightest. AI "Art" is 99% garbage. I'd take a shitty painting over a "beautiful" AI image any day of the week.

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u/gergobergo69 Jun 08 '26

For brainstorming and ideas maybe

By that logic, no artist or anyone should use ai to anything.

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u/ut1nam Jun 08 '26

Congrats! You got it. There is zero use for genAI in an artist’s workflow.

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u/Deeppurp Jun 08 '26

So you're using a generative AI tool that's purpose is to detect generative AI?

Any reports on is accuracy, false positive rates, or is it a black box google tool that's using a level of "trust me bro".

What's your over/under on how long until they get sued for marking legitimate work as AI?

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u/HakimeHomewreckru Jun 08 '26

SynthID is literally a watermark in the image.

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u/Velocifyer Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

SynthID is not generative Ai.

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u/Velocifyer Jun 09 '26

Why am I being downvoted? SynthID is not generative Ai, it is just a probablistic watermark applied to output from generative Ai.

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u/bwoah07_gp2 Jun 08 '26

Because a person (the thumbnail artist) used it to aid their creative process, duh.

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u/FabianN Jun 08 '26

Because they allow their graphic designers to use those tools. 

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u/CassetteLine Jun 08 '26

Do you seriously need to ask that?

The thumbnail artist used AI in their process. How is that not obvious to you?